Dr Martin Litchfield West

OM, MA, DPhil, DLitt, FBA

Honorary Fellow from 2014 to 2015

23 September 1937 - 13 July 2015

Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2004 to 2014)
Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1991 to 2004)
Professor of Greek, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London (from 1974 to 1991)
Fellow and Praelector in Classics, University College, Oxford (from 1963 to 1974)
Junior Research Fellow, St John’s College, Oxford (from 1960 to 1963)
Undergraduate, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1955 to 1959)

Honorary Fellow, All Souls College (from 2014 to 2015)

Research Interests

Ancient Greek language, literature, and music
Indo-European poetry and myth
Early Zoroastrianism

Selected publications

Hellenica, 3 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011–13).
The Making of the Iliad (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
The Making of the Odyssey (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
The Hymns of Zoroaster (London: I. B. Tauris 2010).
Indo-European Poetry and Myth (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).
(with E. Pöhlmann) Documents of Ancient Greek Music (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Homeri Ilias, 2 vols (Stutgardiae: B.G. Teubner, 1998; Monachii: K.G. Saur, 2000).
The East Face of Helicon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).
Publications (PDF)

Other professional memberships and roles

Honorary Doctorate, University of Urbino (2011)
International Member of the American Philosophical Society (2010)
Fellow of the Academy of Athens (2009)
Honorary Doctorate, University of Cyprus (2008)
Foreign Member, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (2007)
MAE (1998)
Corresponding Member, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (1991)

Research awards and grants

Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies, British Academy (2002).
International Balzan Prize for Classical Antiquity (2000).

Codrington Library, All Souls College, Saturday 24 October 2015

Dr Charles Webster

History

BSc, MSc, MA, DSc

Emeritus Fellow since 2004

Charles Webster is primarily engaged in work on Theophrastus von Hohenheim (known also as Paracelsus). Following on from his recent Yale UP book, which was mainly concerned with religious and social thinking of Paracelsus, he is at an advanced stage of a further book, mainly concerned with the scientific and medical work for which Paracelsus is particularly well known. His aim, as with the previous book, is to take full account of the recent literature and to adopt a fresh perspective.

Background

Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1988 to 2004)
Reader in the History of Medicine, University of Oxford and Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford (from 1972 to 1988)

Research Interests

Intellectual history
History of the National Health Service and welfare state

Selected publications

Samuel Hartlib and the Advancement of Learning (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972).
From Paracelsus to Newton: Magic and the Making of Modern Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982).
Problems of Health Care: the National Health Service before 1957 (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1988).
Government and Health Care: The British National Health Service 1958–1979 (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1996).
The Great Instauration, 2nd edn. (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2002).
The National Health Service: A Political History, 2nd edn. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
Paracelsus. Medicine, Magic and Mission at the End of Time (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).

James Walmsley

Barrister, Wilberforce Chambers

Quondam Fellow since 2014

Link to Website

Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2014)
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2007 to 2014)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1999 to 2006)
Undergraduate, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1995 to 1999)

Dr Benjamin Wardhaugh

BA, MA, MMus, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 2020

I work on the history of mathematics. In particular, I am interested in the many different roles mathematics has played in culture in the past. My books include studies of the history of everyday mathematics and of the application of mathematics to music.

Link to Website

Background

Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2013 to 2020)
Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2012 to 2013)
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2007 to 2012)
Doctoral student, Hertford College, Oxford (from 2003 to 2007)
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London (from 2002 to 2003)
Research Assistant, NRICH (Mathematics Education) project, University of Cambridge (online dictionary of mathematics for schoolchildren) (from 2000 to 2002)
Undergraduate, Trinity College, University of Cambridge (from 1997 to 2000)

Research Interests

Uses of mathematics in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England
Mathematical theories of music from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England

Selected publications

The Book of Wonders: The many lives of Euclid's Elements (William Collins, 2020)
Gunpowder and Geometry: The remarkable life of Charles Hutton (William Collins, 2019)
A Wealth of Numbers: An anthology of 500 years of popular mathematics writing (Princeton, 2012)
How to Read Historical Mathematics (Princeton, 2010)
Publications (External Link)

Other professional memberships and roles

Editor of the British Journal for History of Mathematics (from 2017 to 2021)

Research awards and grants

AHRC Research Grant, 'Reading Euclid: Euclid's Elements of Geometry in Britain, 1570–1700' (from 2016 to 2018).
AHRC Early Career Research Grant, 'A biography of Charles Hutton (1737-1823)' (from 2014 to 2016).

Head and torso photograph of Lord Waldegrave

The Rt Hon. Lord [William] Waldegrave of North Hill

Government, business, and education

Politics and International Relations

PCV

Distinguished Fellow since 2001

I am a senior adviser to Coutts & Co, and a member of the House of Lords. I am Trustee of a number of charities and contributor to the national press, most recently to the New Statesman

Background

Director of companies including family farming company
Chancellor, University of Reading (2016-22)
Coutts & Co (Chm 2014-22)
Member President’s advisory Cttee, Royal Society (from 2012)
Biotech Growth Trust (chmn 2012-16)
Chmn Royal Mint Advisory Cttee (2011-21)
Cumberland Lodge (2009-17)
Advisory Board Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University (from 2008)
Strawberry Hill Trust (2008-13)
a Vice-Chm and Man Dir, UBS, senior consultant (2008-12)
Henry Sotheran Ltd (Chmn 2007-15)
International Advisory Board, Teijin Ltd. (2006-08)
Mandela Rhodes Foundation (2003-11)
Chmn Museum of Science and Industry (2002-10)
Distinguished Fellow, All Souls College (from 2001)
Two-Year Fellow, All Souls College (1999-2001)
Beit Memorial Fellowships for Med Research (1998-2006)
A Man. Dir, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (1998-2003)
Chief Secretary, Treasury (1995-7)
Minister of Agriculture (1994-5)
Trustee Rhodes Trust (1992-2011) (Chmn 2002-11)
Chancellor, Duchy of Lancaster, (Minister of Science and Civil Service) (1992-4)
Parliamentary Sec DES and DOE, Minister of State DES, and FCO; Sec of State for Health (1990-2)
MP (C) Bristol West (1979-97)
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (1979 – 86)
GEC Ltd (1975-81)
JP Inner London Juvenile Court (1975-9)
Head of Leader of Opposition’s Office, (1974-5)
Political Secretary 10 Downing St (1973-4)
Examination Fellow, All Souls College (1971-8)
Central Policy Review Staff, Cabinet Office (1971-3)
Harvard University (Kennedy Fellow 1969-70)
Undergraduate, Corpus Christi College (Lit Hum) (Hon Fellow 1991)

Selected publications

The Binding of Leviathan: Conservatism and the Future (London: Hamish Hamilton Kind of Weather, A 1978);
A Different Kind of Weather, A Memoir (London: Constable 2015);
Three Circles into One (London: Mensch 2019)

Other professional memberships and roles

House of Lords since 1999
Trustee of a number of charities

Sir Robert Wade-Gery

KCMG, KCVO, MA

Honorary Fellow from 2011 to 2015

22 April 1929 - 16 February 2015

Background

Honorary Fellow, All Souls College (from 2011 to 2015)
Distinguished Fellow, All Souls College (from 1997 to 2011)
Director, later Vice-Chairman, Barclays Capital (formerly BZW) (from 1987 to 1999)
Two-Year Fellow, All Souls College (from 1987 to 1989)
HM Foreign/Diplomatic Servic, including High Commissioner to India, 1982-7 (from 1951 to 1987)
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1959 to 1973)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1951 to 1958)
Undergraduate, New College, Oxford (from 1947 to 1951)

Other professional memberships and roles

Member, Royal Institute of International Affairs
Hon. Fellow of New College
Chairman, Anglo-Spanish Society (from 1995 to 1998)
Honorary Treasurer, IISS (from 1991 to 2005)
Chairman of Governors, SOAS (from 1990 to 1999)

Professor Sir John Vickers

Economics

MA, DPhil, FBA

The Warden since 2008

My research interests span theory and policy, especially relating to competition and regulation. In particular, I am working with Mark Armstrong on the economics of competition for imperfect consumers. My main current policy-related interests arise from my work in 2010-11 as chair of the Independent Commission on Banking, which recommended fundamental reform to improve stability and competition in UK banking.

Link to Website

Background

Drummond Professor of Political Economy, Oxford (from 1991 to 2008)
Director General/Chairman, Office of Fair Trading (from 2000 to 2005)
Chief Economist and Executive Director, Bank of England (from 1998 to 2000)
Member of the Monetary Policy Committee (from 1998 to 2000)
Roy Harrod Fellow in the Economics of Business and Public Policy, Nuffield College, Oxford (from 1984 to 1990)
Prize Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford (from 1979 to 1984)
Undergraduate, Oriel College, Oxford (from 1976 to 1979)

Research Interests

Economics of competition and regulation

Selected publications

‘Multiproduct cost passthrough: Edgeworth’s paradox revisited’, Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 131, 2645-2665 (with Mark Armstrong).
‘Patterns of competitive interaction’, Econometrica, 2022, 90, 153-191 (with Mark Armstrong)
‘Competition for imperfect consumers’, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2021, 79, 102739.
‘Discriminating against captive customers’, American Economic Review: Insights, 2019, 1, 257- 272 (with Mark Armstrong)
‘Multiproduct pricing made simple’, Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126, 1444-1471 (with Mark Armstrong)

Other professional memberships and roles

Chair, Independent Commission on Banking (from June 2010 to September 2011)
President, Royal Economic Society (from 2007 to 2010)
Fellow, Econometric Society (from 1998)
President, European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (from 2018 to 2020)

Professor Cecilia Trifogli

University Lecturer (and now Titular Professor) in Medieval Philosophy

Philosophy

MA, PhD, FBA

University Academic Fellow since 1999

In the Spring 2015 I have completed (in collaboration with Silvia Donati and Jennifer Ashworth) the edition of the Questions on Aristotle’s Physics by the 13th-century English philosopher Geoffrey of Aspall (Latin text and English translation), which will be published in the British Academy Series Auctores Britannici. I am now editing (together with Aurélien Robert) a volume on space and time in the Middle Ages.

Link to Curriculum Vitae

Background

University Academic Fellow, All Souls College (from 1999)
Postgraduate, University of Milan (from 1996 to 2000)
Undergraduate Programmes, University of Pisa (from 1986 to 1995)
Undergraduate Programmes, University of Pisa (from 1980 to 1986)

Research Interests

Reception of Aristotle’s philosophy in the Middle Ages
Natural philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology in the Middle Ages

Selected publications

Ed., with L. O. Nielsen, Thomas Wylton, On the Intellectual Soul, English translation by G. Trimble, Auctores britannici Medii Aevi XIX, Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press 2010.
'Giles of Rome against Thomas Aquinas on the Subject of Thinking and the Status of the Human Soul', in Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale 23 (2012), pages 221-244.
'Motion and Time', A companion to Walter Burley, ed. A. Conti (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2013) pages 267-299.
'Guido Terreni on the Final Cause', Guido Terreni, O. Carm. (+1342), Studies and Texts, ed. A. Fidora (Barcelona-Madrid 2015) pages 71-82, 307-324.

Other professional memberships and roles

Member of the British Academy Medieval Texts Editorial Committee, Chairman (since 2008) (from 2000)

Sir Keith Thomas

History

CH, MA, FBA

Honorary Fellow since 2015

Background

Honorary Fellow, All Souls College (from 2015)
Distinguished Fellow, All Souls College (from 2001 to 2015)
Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford (from 1988 to 2000)
President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford (from 1986 to 2000)
Professor of Modern History (1986); Reader (1978-85), Fellow (and Tutor from 1957 to 1985) of St John’s College, Oxford (from 1957 to 1986)
Examination Fellow, All Souls College (from 1955 to 1957)
Senior Scholar, St Antony’s College, Oxford (1955)
Brackenbury Scholar, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1952 to 1955)

Research Interests

Social and cultural history of early modern England

Selected publications

In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England (London: Yale University Press, 2018)
The Wolfson History Prize 1972-2012: An Informal History (London: Wolfson Foundation, 2012).
The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Changing Conceptions of National Biography: The Oxford DNB in Historical Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
(ed.), The Oxford Book of Work (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).
Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England, 1500-1800 (London: Allen Lane, 1983).
(ed. with Donald Pennington), Puritans and Revolutionaries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978).
Religion and the Decline of Magic (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971).

Other professional memberships and roles

Honorary Vice-President, Royal Historical Society (from 2001)
Chairman, Advisory Council, Warburg Institute (from 2000 to 2008)
Trustee, British Museum (from 1999 to 2008)
Chairman, British Library Advisory Committee for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (from 1997 to 2002)
President, British Academy (from 1993 to 1997)
Member, Academia Europaea (from 1993)
Trustee, National Gallery (from 1991 to 1998)
Member, Reviewing Committee on Export of Works of Art (from 1989 to 1992)
Member, ESRC (from 1985 to 1990)
Delegate (1980-2000) and Chairman of Finance Committee (1988-2000), Oxford University Press
Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Honorary Member, Japan Academy
Fellow, Learned Society of Wales
Honorary DLitt: Columbia, Kent, Wales, Hull, Leicester, London, Sussex, Warwick
Honorary LittD: Sheffield, Cambridge
Honorary LLD: Williams, Oglethorpe
Honorary PhD: Uppsala
Honorary Fellow of Balliol, Corpus Christi, and St John’s Colleges, Oxford; University of Cardiff; and Warburg Institute, University of London

Dr Michael Teper

Natural Sciences

BSc, MA, PhD

Emeritus Fellow since 2016

My research is in theoretical high energy physics, with the emphasis on the non-perturbative properties of quantum field theories such as SU(N) gauge theories. My approach to solving these theories is primarily via the computer simulation of the corresponding lattice field theories.

Link to Website

Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2016)
Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1993 to 2016)
Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1986 to 1993)
University of Southampton, UK (from 1985 to 1986)
CERN, Switzerland (from 1984 to 1985)
LAPP, France (from 1982 to 1984)
DESY, Germany (from 1980 to 1982)
Rutherford Laboratory, UK (from 1977 to 1980)
University of Paris, France (from 1976 to 1977)
University of Oregon, USA (from 1974 to 1976)
Postgraduate, University of London (from 1970 to 1974)
Undergraduate, University of Sussex (from 1967 to 1970)

Research Interests

Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics. I use lattice field theory to calculate and understand the non-perturbative physics of quantum field theories in various dimensions. My recent research has involved the calculation of the spectrum and topological content of SU(N) gauge theories, as well as the spectrum of the confining flux tubes. We use this spectrum to determine the action of the effective string theory describing these string-like flux tubes, particularly in the important limit of N going to infinity.

Selected publications

Publications since 1973

Teaching

Graduate theoretical physics

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